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The company whose business used to prosper has turned out to be crippled by inefficient management and lack of competitive products.

"E. T. " is about a heartbroken, divorce-crippled family, and ultimately, this kid who can't find his way.

He said the rise could possibly be due to a continuous leak of highly radioactive material from the area around the crippled reactors.

He stayed in the hospital for half a year and returned home with a ruined face and a crippled leg.

So he never responds when a blind or crippled beggar or a mother cradling her baby holds out a hand for money.

Red Pollard: I was crippled for the rest of my life . I got better. He made me better. Hell , you made me better.

The next period was one where I was crippled with debt, as well as trying to survive on a single income with no medical insurance.

He then began to run across the grass. Faster and faster he ran, carrying the little crippled boy on his back.

and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.

It made Mary's blood boil to see the children make fun of the crippled girl.

She was a sickly, crippled child who turned herself into a world-class runner through tremendous determination and discipline.

The war crippled their technological centers, and the Bith had to turn to imported devices to help sustain their society.

It had waited for me to be born, and then it had waited for me to be suddenly crippled in both legs during my wildly ambitious youth.

Yet the hosts are supposed to make it a great destination and a memorable event. How to manage that in a crippled economy?

Her legs were so crippled and bent that it seemed impossible for her to be able to walk, let alone run a marathon.

It's sort of like a tennis player who thinks too hard about a stroke--you're temporarily crippled.

But the Fair Deal programs fell victim to the same public and congressional conservatism that had crippled the last years of the New Deal.

He had once been a soldier. Sadly, he was wounded in a war and was now crippled.

An attack of smallpox, when he was three, crippled his hands and weakened his eyes.

If it means by living a long time you're crippled by arthritis and can't get out of the house that's not much use to anyone.

Fund managers warned of job losses and said the industry would be crippled.

China is one of the few large economies whose banking system has not been crippled by the global credit crunch.

He spent his last years crippled by strokes, desperately trying to pay off his debts.

'This enormous surge of unfairly traded goods resulted in an overhang of inventory that crippled the domestic industry, ' the company said.

Her touch enabled her to recognize them in a moment, and to discover if a single feather were crippled or dragged.

I heard of a mother who brought into her home as a companion to her own son, a crippled boy who was also a hunchback.

It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

Passing the "crippled amnesty" to Parliament means that Sunnis will have to wait some time to see its results.

A crippled economy may be the main reason he is struggling, but it is not the only reason.

And with the crippled economy remaining fractured, experts believe the health of the American people will likely go from bad to worse.

They were in a great panic and one of them stepped on my leg. Since then, I have been permanently crippled.

Charles Howard: You could be crippled for the rest of your life.

Yet despite heroic efforts to repair and rebuild, Japan's car industry is still crippled. And that could have global consequences.

He said JPMorgan's exposure was hurt further by the acquisition of crippled Bear Stearns in March.

In particular he highlights the weakness of NATO (crippled by feuding over the Iraq war) and of the self-centred and complacent EU.

One Tokyo resident said he was extremely nervous about the events at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant.

This imposed losses on an already crippled banking system, and led to a sharp contraction in domestic credit.

Once crippled by debt, unions and inefficiency, it has made a strong comeback in recent years.

At least one has not been crippled by the earthquake.

Forrest: Mamma says my back's crippled like a question mark. They are going to make me as straight as an arrow. They are my magic shoes.

Her hands were strangely bent because, Mrs Altmann knew, she had a crippled finger, which she always tried to hide.

Joking that he's a samurai, he vows to save his town with its crippled power plant, its poisoned rice paddies and terrified survivors.

On the day of the bombings, which crippled the transportation system for weeks, bicycle shops sold out of their stock within hours.

A tragic trolley car accident left Kahlo crippled and strenuously struggling with pain for the remainder of her life.

The news follows allegations that Fukushima was crippled by the earthquake, not the ensuing tsunami as previously thought.

Years of underinvestment, outdated technology, and poor management had left them crippled with debt.

What if you or your partner are crippled by negative self-image fueled by bulimia, anorexia, or any other eating disorder?

But the power crisis has really crippled peoples ability to cope with it. Until the rains bring some respite people will continue to suffer.

In the mutant mice, the brain signals sent to the heart through the vagus nerve were crippled.

Defaults are damaging and costly: banks are crippled, governments fall, populations suffer and countries are frozen out of capital markets.

The pilot brought his crippled plane down in a field.

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As a result of that my legs are damaged and slightly crippled and my eyes are weak.

Secondly, too many classifications of these organic items crippled their progress daily analysis or monitoring work.

To this, the little boy reached down and rolled up his pant leg to reveal a badly twisted, crippled left leg supported by a big metal brace.

But not to the female who had just left him, for she was too crippled now to bring down a full grown sheep.

At the other end of the spectrum, "technology leaders" always want the latest devices and feel crippled without their phones.

Then in a little while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little crippled brother.

Concern is mounting about the long-term fate of people who remain close to the country's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant.

Moreover within the euro zone, crisis response is crippled by the ECB's constitutional ban on bailing out its own banks.

Arthritis crippled her hands so she had to give up the flute.

This figurative habit of his mind crippled his judgement .

Broke my kneecap so many times, he thought I would be crippled for life.

One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still vastly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.

Instead, his presidency was crippled by his revolutionary debts.

The drained cell then becomes permanently crippled and unable to contribute to the battery's overall output.

He was in any event severely crippled, even for a time paralysed and incontinent.

The two subs collide, with the Russian boat crippled and trapped on the bottom.

No photographer is allowed to shoot the president's crippled walk.

The story of a crippled fortuneteller and his deaf-mute wife highlights the wit, compassion and compassion f Li Baicheng.

As a result of that accident he was crippled for life.

Another's nephew was imprisoned and tortured for a month by pro-government thugs. He is now crippled.

The exhibition presented photographs and testimonies of victims who had been blinded or crippled or suffered amputations for thievery .

In other words, the legislation would benefit not immigrants, but American industry which would be crippled without it.

Within a few minutes, quite a few people were crippled.

The Fox couldn't help holding out his paw that was supposed to be crippled, while the Cat opened both eyes wide.

When a young man prompted his crippled grandmother to raise her hand.

And a software glitch crippled the baggage handling system today at an American Airlines terminal at JFK .

An elderly lady, dreadfully crippled with arthritis, used to hobble painfully to church on two crutches .

The general strike of the railway workers crippled the country's economy.

Dependence on migrant remittances is a common theme among the world's most crippled, tightly controlled economies.

Crippled now, unable to find his normal prey in the scrubby forest, let alone stalk and kill it, he's driven by hunger to easier meals.

Officials from the Tokyo Electric Power Company and Japanese journalists take a bus tour of the crippled nuclear plant.

However, this statistic highlights the crippled state of Africa's landlines and therefore its Internet services.

the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.

By 2025, the European Union will be a "hobbled giant" crippled by internal bickering and a eurosceptic citizenry.

Engineers plan to shoot heavy mud into the crippled blowout preventer on top of the well, then permanently entomb the leak in concrete.

If you know someone who is an invalid and crippled in a wheelchair; then you have a parallel life in which you are crippled as well.

They fished in the big river, but somehow they were still very thin, emaciated, already old, some very crippled.

Her sea-blue eyes were filmed over and when she walked down the steps toward the open car her long legs tottered like a crippled foal's.

They fished in the big river, but somehow they were still very thin, emaciated, already old, some very crippled.

Her sea-blue eyes were filmed over and when she walked down the steps toward the open car her long legs tottered like a crippled foal's.

Luke burned the dark armor that had encased Anakin's crippled body in a quiet funeral pyre on the forest moon of Endor that night.

A car accident crippled the man, and he never walked again.

The accident crippled him for life.

Meanwhile, a crippled nuclear reactor was being flooded with sea water mixed with boron, an emergency replacement for regular coolant.

Undercover video showing crippled and sick animals being shoved with forklifts has led to the largest beef recall in the country.

I started looking at the blokes around me, and I realised that men are emotionally crippled.

Pigs and naked children were everywhere underfoot, crippled beggars and cutpurses swarmed like roaches through the press.

Because he was crippled, Joshua the lamb was often left behind and laughed at, which made him really sad.

Because he was crippled, Joshua the lamb was often left behind and laughed at, which made him really sad.

Within 24 hours, this seemingly healthy toddler lay down on the sofa, crippled with stomach pains.

Kenobi's blade sheared from him his lower legs and his left arm, and his crippled body tumbled onto the searing black sands of Mustafar.

We also look at the strikes that have crippled South Africa in recent weeks and the damage they have done to President Jacob Zuma.

This man's son did not join in the fighting because he was crippled and so both the boy and his father survived.

TYPICAL USE: The crippled child tumbled down the stairs and was badly hurt.

His 12-year-old son, Kyle, was kidnapped seven years earlier, leaving a mess of unresolved grief and guilt and a crippled marriage.

Failure, SAGE warned, would lead to a major resurgence of the disease with many children crippled for life again every single year.

No calculating planter would care to part with a crippled slave for the current price of one dollar.

The middle class had been shafted in the eighties, and Bush had been crippled by signing a gas-tax increase.

The middle class had been shafted in the eighties, and Bush had been crippled by signing a gas-tax increase.

The House of Representatives unexpectedly voted against a White House deal designed to restabilise a crippled banking system.

The injury crippled him for life.

It isn't clear if seaweed is harvested or farmed in the area around the crippled nuclear plant.

In 2009, China loaned a single country -- Angola -- $1 billion to rebuild its farming sector, crippled by years of fighting.

There was another little boy who was crippled . He had always wished that he could walk and run like other little boys and girls.

For the greater part of the last century, racial discrimination crippled black efforts to buy homes and accumulate wealth.

A huge battle can be expected in parliament, echoing the unrest in the streets: Athens was crippled by strikes on Thursday.

Men tended to express different feelings -- "that I have no control over anything and I am crippled, " he says.

I will empower you to one end alone: to give power back to the people of Rome, and end the corruption that has crippled it.

I will empower you to one end alone: to give power back to the people of Rome, and end the corruption that has crippled it.

Protesters loyal to ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra have crippled the capital's tourist hub of hotels and shopping attractions.

Love is magical. It is a language the deaf can hear, a song the crippled can dance to, and a sunset the blind can see.

The crippled child tumbled down the stairs and was badly hurt.

Her crippled body was gathered by Vader's agents, and she recuperated within secret chambers aboard the Super Star Destroyer Executor.

I guess she thought she was better off with two crippled babies than one monstrous one.

having a part of the body crippled or disabled.

A closed capital account protected China from the speculative attacks that crippled Thailand, Indonesia, and South Korea.

The passengers from a crippled cruise ship that docked in Alabama Thursday after five days adrift are finally on dry land and headed home.

In four years ten million people had been killed and many others crippled for life.

In four years ten million people had been killed and many others crippled for life.

No one was shooting the crippled walk of the President.

The same type of cyber-attack crippled US and South Korean government websites last month, although Twitter has fewer obvious enemies.

Three emergency workers at Japan's crippled nuclear plant were hospitalized after exposure to high levels of radiation last week.

The Crippled Lamb is a delightful tale about a little lamb named Joshua who was crippled.

Deeply tanned German residents are returning after vacationing in fiscally crippled Greece and Portugal.

but I've got somebody waiting for me, very devoted, almost crippled.

I will empower you to one end alone, to give power to the people of Rome, and end the corruption that had crippled it.

Nothing the doctors said could shake her belief that though her son was physically crippled he was not mentally so.

The solar storm disrupted short- wave radio transmissions and crippled Coast Guard navigation systems .

The solar storm disrupted short- wave radio transmissions and crippled Coast Guard navigation systems .

He believes that we have crippled men by expecting them to be monogamous.

That is, to hit her with such fatigue and weakness that she is effectively crippled, and has to lie down and "sleep" immediately.

That is one of several reasons to wonder whether the splits that once crippled their party may reappear.

In March, the websites of government departments and banks were also crippled by the now-classic DDoS method.

She was laid off in late 2008, when the global financial crisis temporarily crippled Chinese exports to the West.

Congress left several meaty matters for later, including the crippled mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac .

Jung said these projections both insulated and crippled individuals by forming a thick fog of illusion between the ego and the real world.

Recession in the US and Europe has crippled the garment industry in India, which depends heavily on export orders from these regions.

The effort was credited with forcing down mortgages rates and providing support to the crippled housing market.

The effort was credited with forcing down mortgages rates and providing support to the crippled housing market.

But instead of buying bad mortgages off the books of crippled banks, the EFSF would buy bad sovereign paper.

In Ireland, the central-bank governor wants a foreign bank to buy or partner with one of the country's crippled lenders.

In Haiti, heavy rains ruined the banana crops, clogged an already crippled drainage system, and flooded entire cities.

The radiation spreading from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant is unprecedented.

She was somewhat crippled with rheumatism.

A little dead baby, a young boy lies kept, as fragile and frightened, crippled and sad.

Here's the situation: The U. S. economy has been crippled by a financial crisis.

Many return to families crippled by debt from months without a breadwinner.

Officials say it is likely to take many decades before the crippled plant can be decommissioned.

Officials say it is likely to take many decades before the crippled plant can be decommissioned.

Mr. Wen's comments showed sympathy for workers who crippled production at auto-parts makers supplying Honda and Toyota.

A 14-year-old boy was tortured and crippled by the police after being wrongly accused of stealing a drill.

The crippled reactors at the plant have finally been stabilized more than four months after the disaster.

It also makes a crippled system, previously transferred to virtual hardware by a third party tool, 100% bootable.

Two years ago, the diamond trade was crippled by collapsing sales and heavy debt.

The riser will be cut at the top of the crippled blowout preventer, creating a flat surface that a new containment valve can seal against.

In recent months, waves of strikes and protests against austerity measures have crippled Greek cities.

Nationwide, the epidemic has crippled tourism, an industry already battered by fears of drug violence.

Some people there say they are happier than when they were under government control, despite crippled public services.

Some people there say they are happier than when they were under government control, despite crippled public services.

LIU JUHUA, crippled by polio as a child, teaches school in a remote village in HUKOU COUNTY and earns US$40 a month.

They say I inherited this, but you and dad aren`t crippled.

In the most recent presidential election, the PRI's entrant was crippled by a bitter nomination fight.

I developed a chronic pain condition that left me too crippled to do much besides lie still and breathe.

the u . s . pacific fleet was crippled with 8 damaged or destroyed battleships.

The earthquake last month crippled the Fukushima plant, leading to leaks of radioactive steam and water.

Fear of pain and death, worry is whether the accident crippled and disfigured.

Supply worries are stoking up concerns in Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer, where production has been crippled by unrest.

But his legacy remains a demoralised and debt-crippled country on the brink of needing an international bail-out.

Factory shutdowns and crippled shipping routes pose a risk to companies that depend on chips for storing data.

The aim was partly to show that the authorities were steadily bringing the crippled reactors under control.

Lu You, who anchors a soccer show on CCTV, also said outsized incomes and high expectations had crippled men's soccer.

The fuel shortage and rolling power cuts have already crippled industrial production.

A major concern was further damage to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and other nuclear power stations in the area.

Just remember that single acne spot that crippled you for several days.

The sceptics may be wrong to dismiss Germany's labour market as crippled by rigidity.

On January 15th further strikes crippled three car plants for eight hours following a row between management and unions over bonus payments.

That capability can be crippled only by removing the battery.

The ship was crippled by a storm.

Fukushima Daiichi has attracted global attention since March 11, when an earthquake and tsunami crippled its backup systems.

Such laws also slow the construction of power plants, contributing to the rolling blackouts that crippled South Africa in 2008.

With the cooling system crippled, reactor unit 1 at Daiichi was the first to heat up.

"Each one crippled a little bit, " said geophysicist Jafar Arkani-Hamed of the University of Toronto, author of the new study.

"Minimal rainfall or snow this winter has crippled China's major agricultural regions, leaving many of them parched, " Xinhua reported.

The strike crippled Israel's airports, seaports, railways and many other services.

Mostly, he sits in a wheelchair, crippled by brittle bone disease.

One ancient mage named Salim-Sedul, who had a soft spot for the crippled and the underdogs in life, allowed a handful of them to escape.

Riots and paralyzing strikes have crippled Thailand, France, and Greece.

Only 1 target can be crippled at a time.

That left the banks crippled and the economy on its knees.

Sometimes they are overly protective of themselves, especially when they are called crippled or paralysed.

High radiation levels at a crippled Japanese nuclear power plant continue to slow efforts to bring the situation under control.

The move follows an abortive bid by Porsche to take over its lager rival who left it crippled with debts.

For deprived iPhone users, the crippled web might then be a thing of the past.

When the crippled Spurs lost Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker to injuries, who did they turn to? Old Mr. Reliable Tim Duncan.

Emotionally crippled, he sped back to Paris at once, but was too late for the funeral.

US officials warned nationals living within 80 kilometres (50 miles) of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to evacuate or seek shelter.

Old and crippled, he have courage enough to do the work.

The crippled Canada gander remains in the field and continues to honk long after the flock had disappeared.

Russia's gas production, crippled by corruption and bad management, is falling.

Crippled from the start by a long history of bad blood, the Ugandan-dominated coalition has been falling apart.

Solyndra adds to a list of crippled solar ventures.

The crippled ship was dead in the water. With no leadership, the project was dead in the water.

India's banks are flush with cash, but they are also cautious, fearing a rise in the non-performing loans that crippled them in the 1990s.

Revolution-minded Americans have not only crippled themselves; they have also affected the rest of the world.

And even if the vicious circle is limited, the financial system will still be crippled by inadequate capital.

Quake damage to roads crippled access to the town of Pisco and other port cities along Peru's central coast.

His absence temporarily crippled the ability of WikiLeaks toaccept new submissions.

Amateur video - seconds after the quake that crippled the Haitian capital.

Princess Margaret Rose Hospital For Crippled Children, Edinburgh. June, 1956.

He was crippled in car accident, which is caused by his running a red light.

In Acts 3 we read that everybody is "filled with wonder and amazement" because a crippled man started walking.

Peter's father was crippled by a stroke.

And it toppled totalitarian regimes, crippled the music business, and neutered the porn industry.

He was left permanently crippled by the collision.

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13When you give a feast, invite instead the poor, the crippled, the lame and the blind.

The banking sector, already fragile, was crippled.

There are beggars who have been crippled deliberately to make them better beggars.

I raised the glass, and he went off over the window-sill in that crippled state.

Your Hands will be Crippled, and you will Perish as the Wretched Outcast in the Bleak Unwritten.

He was severely crippled and very short, and when we would walk together, his hand on my arm for balance, people would stare.

Maher says that was based on flights over the crippled nuclear plant by a U. S. Air Force (RQ-4) Global Hawk remotely piloted plane.

No astronaut ever radioed laconically back from a crippled spaceship, "Manhattan, we have a problem" .

After battling cancer for many years, cancer that crippled her young body and impaired her mind, she died.

Houston will go into the first round crippled legged, back spasmed, fart toed and gimping all the way.

As we've all seen, a crippled political mindset didn't help the Russian nation become strong but instead weakened it internally.

The housing market is crippled, with prices still falling.

We had friends and classmates with crutches or leg braces and crippled limbs.

The factory was entirely crippled by the strike.

They could be crippled by their pension liabilities.

eg. She was crippled in the car accident.

Mr Wang rejects the idea that Vanke is starved for cash or crippled by high land prices.

The Borealis impact would have crippled the dynamo, but not killed it outright.

The traffic was entirely crippled for the day.

The pilot tried to land his crippled plane.

He was crippled in an accident.

In fact, it may very well be the sign of a crippled or impoverished sensuality.

Malene, though half-crippled by arthritis, is gorgeous and has a handsome boyfriend.